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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

impala.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

prometheus.io

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

prometheus.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2013

1991

2015

2004

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

by Federation

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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